Emily Dickinson

United States
10 Dec 1830 // 15 May 1886
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This Is My Letter to the World

This is my letter to the world,
That never wrote to me,�
The simple news that Nature told,
With tender majesty.

Her message is committed
To hands I cannot see;
For love of her, sweet countrymen,
Judge tenderly of me!

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